Still Catching Up

The rain is here…the fields are wet…20 weeks of CSA boxes filled…I still want to catch you up on early October.

The beginning of the month brought a vacation for Logan.  That was much-needed for him.

We just continued the regular - harvesting, weeding, and also taking up irrigation in fields in preparation for disking and planting cover crop.  

We knew the rains were coming sometime this week, so our efforts were spent preparing space for garlic (to be planted after these rains), and harvesting winter squash.  

We planted around 1.5 acres of Winter Squash this year.  Four varieties - kabocha (green and orange), waltham butternut, table queen Acorn, and Spaghetti Squash.  We planted the most of butternut, 3/4 acre.  The yield was very good - around 25,000 lbs.  And we got it all out of the fields,into bins,and they are dry (mostly).  

I really enjoy growing the winter squash.  The crop takes little relative care, yields well, sells well, and stores well.  It is the perfect crop for a farm like ours.